Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided to specialise in patio pot plants but nothing thrived , and I 've just discovered that woodlice have invaded the pots and even eaten away the linings of wall baskets . |
| 2 | ‘ You quibble about names , and I 've just discovered that my father was once called Antonio Corosini ! ’ she cried bitterly . |
| 3 | yes and I 've just verified that this witness agrees on that matter and that he has nothing to do with it , is that right ? |
| 4 | It is this is a totally disgraceful situation , and I 've also explained that to my brother and I am endeavouring to put this situation right , erm but it is a conflict of interests and I do n't really know what else I can say . |
| 5 | It 's always been on my mind — I suppose it always will — and I 've always said that if I got the opportunity to kill the man I 'd do it , and I would take the consequences . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been an engineer for a long time , and I 've always believed that ethics and integrity were every bit as important as theorems and formulas , and never once has anything happened to change my beliefs . |
| 7 | It may be that one of my children might want one or two of them , but nobody these days has the houses to hang pictures in the way Bunny and I have done , and I 've always known that the public will eventually enjoy them . |
| 8 | I was not from a religious background , and I had previously thought that anyone who went to the mikva had to wear ghastly old-fashioned dresses with thick tights and live in a Yiddish-speaking ghetto ! |
| 9 | And I have also remembered that I know a deputy headmaster in a school in Wales . |
| 10 | On five different occasions ( and in three countries ) I have asked teachers to mark essays , projects , assignments , and I have sometimes indicated that they were by boys and other times that they were by girls . |
| 11 | There is a lot of racism in the school , and I have often believed that a lot of multicultural talk should start with the staff before it starts with the pupils . |
| 12 | The procedure for job applications and interviews is well known to most returners and I have therefore assumed that you do not need detailed guidance on this . |
| 13 | Whenever there 's been officers get together , then W R A D itself paid for my travelling expenses and I have never claimed that from the authority , as I did n't believe that was proper . |
| 14 | Then , as now , people had nicknames as they do in Wales , and I have always suspected that this type of labelling has causes other than the lack of variety in local surnames . |
| 15 | I also made a documentary about the U-boat campaign which in two world wars had nearly brought us to our knees ; and I have always regretted that after the last war , when we sank so many of them in deep water , we did not keep one as a trophy and bring it up the Thames into the heart of London : it would have been a perennial attraction for every schoolboy in the country . |
| 16 | Victoria and I have undoubtedly passed that milepost . |
| 17 | To this day — and I have exhaustively researched that particular sortie led by Willie Tait — and , despite watching several 8mm films of the bombs falling , shot by the camera crew in a No 463 Squadron Lancaster . |
| 18 | ‘ My job means having to give up a lot of things that everyone else takes for granted in their life , and you 've always known that , Annabel , ’ Scott again reminded her . |
| 19 | ‘ And you 'd really accepted that they would marry ? ’ |
| 20 | She had never questioned his facts ; he had been ten or twelve at the time and she had confidently assumed that he knew what he was talking about . |
| 21 | It was the first time that he 'd come anywhere near to making a personal remark , and she had already concluded that she did n't register with him as a person , only as his assistant , sexless and insignificant . |
| 22 | And she had also thought that was all it was , she acknowledged wearily . |
| 23 | And she had somehow thought that he would have known that she could not go . |
| 24 | And she had sincerely hoped that that would be their last meeting ever . |
| 25 | She had loved the sense of purpose and the freedom and most of the Africans , and she had always supposed that she would stay there all her life , and finally die there , and be buried , like David Livingstone 's wife , under a baobab tree . |
| 26 | Things could n't go on as they were without something happening , and she had intuitively known that when it did her life would be forever changed . |
| 27 | And she had half expected that he would follow her and continue the argument . |
| 28 | From the letter Brian had received from the newspaper last November , we knew that his sisters and friends were working for him and we had also heard that Jill , Nick Toksvig and other friends were active on my behalf . |
| 29 | But Mount Kenya is over 17,000ft ( 5100m ) and we 'd also learnt that many walkers and climbers fail to reach the top simply because of altitude sickness . |
| 30 | And we 've just heard that Derbyshire have beaten Northamptonshire by eight wickets . |